IA/Usability

by codepo8 | What is the best tool to develop web products? Is there one that helps us create faster, more efficient and clean without costing a lot of money? Yes, there is, and you have been using it for ages. Read More »

by codepo8 | You want them, you need them - Users. Hear from one of them what you might do wrong and what you can do to make up for that. Read More »

by dl_byron | The purpose of the article is to share my experience with Flash accessibility and offer the readers tips to make it work. Hearing your site can be quite unnerving, especially when the voice of Stephen Hawking reads it. There's also a Flash accessibility gotcha that I explain. It's not a breakthrough-code article, but should be helpful to those that want to make their Flash more accessible. Read More »

by dkr | Don't know what a persona is? Want an interesting and fairly easy way to help you get to know and advocate for your users? Practical Persona Creation is a simple overview, with a few real world examples, of how to create and use personas as well as some ideas to get you started learning about personas and thinking about your user when you design and build Web sites. Read More »

by dkr | Not everyone has time to conduct a formal usability study, or the money to invest in a full blown usability initiative, and frankly, lots of times that might not be the best option anyway. Sometimes a designer or developer needs that one-on-one, maker-to-user interface. Gorilla Usability will show you some ways to get to know your users in a real world, out-from-behind-the-glass kind of way. Read More »

by tull | Search engine optimization is becoming a key part of what it means to be a web developer. Getting your clients traffic ain't easy - but a little thought at the design stage will make things much easier in the long run. Read More »

by siliconglen | Courtesy Titles. Their use, misuse and guidelines for flexible international website design Read More »

by dkr | The purpose of this article is to help you define information architecture so that you can recognize when it is you are wearing an IA hat, as well as provide you some tips, basics and resources to help you build the most well architected sites possible. So let's get started. Read More »

by ppk | Summary of a discussion on Evolt and WDF-DOM. Does the W3C DOM offer us radically new opportunities to allow user control over the interface of our sites? If it does, is it a good idea? What sites will it work for? Read More »

by wiseguysonly | Many developers still view graphics and accessibility as being on opposing ends of the web development scale. The truth is that including graphics in your documents does not mean your page has to be any less accessible. In fact graphics can be used to enhance the accessibility of a page. There are, however, a few key techniques that you can employ to ensure that you don't have to construct alternative "Text-Only" documents. Read More »